The 19th-century French Clarendon, with its unorthodox reversed stress, never achieved the versatility of its Victorian siblings: the slab-serif Antique and the sans-serif Grotesque. In Trilby, David Jonathan Ross reined in this topsy-turvy style…
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Inspired by the boisterous wood types of the nineteenth century, Manicotti pushes the reversed-stress French Clarendon style to its decorative extreme. Its thick tops and bottoms and massive slab serifs overtake the short vertical...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
Prompted initially by commercial lettering and landmarks of the ’20s and ’30s, David Jonathan Ross fused a high-contrast style with a rationalized structure of flattened curves and wide-open apertures to devise this glimmering sans-serif...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Where classic serif faces are urbane and well-mannered, Turnip is coarse and down-to-earth — the kind of type that feels completely at home with salty language. David Jonathan Ross crafted an energetic tension between Turnip’s inner...